>> he wrestles the plane back to a wing's level position. >> with the steering the aircraft started to roll over on its back and would have continued to roll over and dive into the ground and be destroyed except for the fact that at that moment al haynes reached over and retarded the throttle on the left wing and the asymmetric thrust picked the wing up slowly and steadied the aircraft. if he hadn't done it within a few seconds of when he did it, it would have been unrecoverable. >> but united 232 still has monumental problems. from the cockpit, pilots call the flight attendants' phone to make sure the cabin and passengers are prepared for an emergency landing. >> i picked it up, and they said come to the cockpit.